Re: networking xp to vista

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I am trying to access the C: drive not the root drive. When I check the
security tap the following group or user names appear: Authenticated Users;
SYSTEM; Administrators (Ron-PC\Administrators); Users (Ron-PC\Users) Each has
full control. Should something be changed? ron

"Malke" wrote:

ronseg wrote:

I'm sorry but nothing helps. I checked my user accounts again, My xp has
Ron comuter administrator and my vista has Ron administrator as the user
account.
I have xp media and I have turned off simple file sharing. I do not have
two
firewalls, just windows firewall. Any other ideas? I also have an old
laptop running Win 98, it sees my vista but can't log on either. Select
user group and effective permission on the vista share/security tap
appears to be a problem. What should this be?

Are you trying to share the entire C: drive on Vista, or something on the
root of the drive? That is protected in Vista. If this is what you're
doing, then either put things in Vista's Public folder (which is where they
should go) or do this to enable sharing the root of a drive (not
recommended):

*****
From Michael Bell, MS - When you share out the root of a drive in Vista, the
UI only allows this through the advanced sharing option. When the advanced
sharing option is used it only sets the share permissions. The actual
permissions on a file share are a combination of Folder and Share
permissions. In Vista the everyone group doesn't have permissions so when
you connect without a password the system you can see the folders but not
access them or possibly connect to the share but fail to open it.

1. Open Computer
2. Right click on the shared drive and select properties from the context
menu
3. Select the Security Tab in the displayed properties ***.

If you are connecting to the computer with no password then you are
connecting with the guest account. In order to access the files on the
drive, the everyone group needs to have access set here.
*****

Malke
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